Wednesday, August 19, 2015

How to search candidates through Facebook & Twitter

People, Photo, interest and places

1. people who work at (company) who live in (location)
2. pages liked by *****
3. my friend who liked *****
4. People who worked for **** lives in *****
5. People named **** who Work/Live in ************
6. People who went to IIT Bombay in 2002
7. Engineers who work at (location/company )
9. people who work at (company) who went to (school)
10. friends of my friends who work at (company)
11. People who used to work at Yahoo and live in Bangalore, India
12. People who ever worked at Amazon India and live in Bangalore, India
13. Computer Science graduates who live in Bangalore, India
14. Computer Science graduates who work at Amazon India
15. People who graduated from IIT Bombay after 2000.

Have you ever wished for a quick and inexpensive way to reach out to candidates? Recently I was doing research on one of the mobile phone application, Whatsapp, which is basically an IM service for your cell phone. It’s available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Nokia phones. Whatsapp uses your phone’s Internet connection.

Watsapp could be looked at as a great medium for proactive sourcing. Whatsapp does come in the form of Mobile app (Some third party freelancers have developed an app). Once you customize the whatsapp desktop client, you can simply add the prospective applicants' phone numbers to your contact list and send them a message - note that the open rate of whatsapp messages are going to be lot more than emails. 

Here are some ways you can use Whatsapp in your global recruiting efforts:

Step 1:
You can export all phone numbers from Job boards, ATS and LinkedIn to an excel file. Save it in CSV format and you can import them to the contact list directly.

Step 2:

Add all these numbers to a group so that you can send them messages in one go, alternatively you can send each of them mails individually if it is a senior level opening.

Step 3:                                            
Source even faster :-)   


Add some shine to your sourcing strategies!!



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